Sash-cord fastener.



No. 6a|,3s5. Patented Aug. 27, |901. .1. c. & v. E. BARR.

SASI'! CURD FASTENER. Applicaeion med Jun 25, 1901.)

(No Model.)

PHOTO-Uma, WASHINGTON u c ltightly thereon, and also to improve the fas- JAMES C. BARR AND VIRGIL EDSON BARR, OF AMANDA, OHIO.

sAsH-ooRD'FAsTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 681,885, dated August 27, 1901.

Application sied me 25,1901. srainaeaect. (Numan.)

To, a/ZZ whom, t may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMES C. BARR and VIRGIL EDsoN BARR, citizens of the United States, residing at Amanda, in the county of Fairfield and State of Chio, have invented a new and useful Sash-Cord Fastener, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to sash-cord fasteners, and has for its object to provide certain improvements in the connection between a sash-cord andthe sash, whereby the cord may be readily attached and detached without withdrawing fastening devices from the sash and thereby without damage to the sash and cord. It is furthermore designed to provide an improved socket for application to the sash, which is arranged to be maintained tening device, which is carried by the cord and arranged for detachable engagement with thesocket.

With these and other objects in view the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, andA particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details may be made within the scope of the claims without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of one corner portion of a window-sash having the present invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is an elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a central longitudinal sectional view. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the fastening device for application to the end of a sashcord. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of the socket for application to a window-sash. Fig. 6 is a detail view showing the manner of clamping the fastening device upon a cord.

Referring to the drawings@ designates the upper corner portion of an oir'inary windowsash, which is provided in its vertical edge with the usual longitudinal groove 2, terminating at its inner end in an enlarged recess or seat 3, the groove being for the reception of the sash cord 4 in the usual manner.

These parts are common and well known and have been shown to adequately illustrate the present invention.

In carrying out the present invention there is provided a metallic socket 5 in the form of a cylinder or tube, `which is split longitudinally, as at G, to form a spring-'socket that is designed to fit snugly within the recess or seat 3 in the edgeof the Window-sash and by reason of its spring to maintain a snug it therein. The outer end of the tubular socket is partly closed by means of the diam etrically opposite ears or projections 7, that are directed inwardly in opposite directions across the outer end of the socket and terminate short of each other, thereby providing an inverted substantially T-shaped slot or open ing in the outer end of the socket. per portion of the outer edge of the socket is provided with a longitudinal notch 8, which is diametrically opposite the longitudinal slot 6, which extends from end to end of the socket. This socket is driveninto the correspondinglyshaped recess 3 in the sash, so that its outer end may be flush with the outer edge of the sash, whereby the socket projects across the inner end of the groove in the sash and the notched portion Sis disposed to lie at the said inner end of the groove. In placing the socket in the sash it is compressed as much as possible, so as to freely enter the recess, after which it is permitted to spring outwardly, and thereby snugly t the recess, so as to obviate the employment of additional fastenings to secure the socket in place.

The fastening, which is applied to theend of the sash-cord, consists of a laterally-bowed shank portion 9, which has one end, which is normally its lower end, provided with an enlarged circular head 10, that lies in substantially the same planewith the shank and is connected thereto by means of a reduced neck portion 1l, the opposite edges of the shank being provided with staggered and laterallyprojected ears 12, which are capable of being bent around the sash-cord, as shown in Fig. 6. The shank portion is provided with a plu`- rality of pointed spurs or prongs 13, which are struck therefrom and extend or incline toward the head portion l0 upon what may be termed the inner side of the shank, so as to take into the cord, and thereby prevent the The up- IOO latter from slipping endwise from the fastening. It will be observed that the head and neck portion project below the lower end of the cord, so that the fastening may be turned y edgewise and the head passed inwardly through the slot in the outer end of the socket t and then again turned to its original and nor- 'l mal position, so that the neck may lie in the notch 8, with the enlarged head extending transversely across the notch and in engagement with the inner upper portion of the y socket, whereby the fastening is connected to 5 the socket and the sash. By this means the cord may be conveniently applied to and removed from the sash without damage to any of the parts and doesnot require Vthe removal of other fastening devices.

The staggered relation vof the ears 12 of the cord-fastening permits .of the same overlappingafconsiderable portion ofthe-cord, as adjacent opposite ears may project fbeyond each otherv'ithout interfering, whereby a secure fastening is had between the .shank and .the cord.

The advantage of the present for-m of socket l resides in the fact that 4it may he struck from l a blankof metal, then bcntinto tubular form, andtinally having the ears bent laterally into their normal position, thereby providing .ai strong, durable, and inexpensive form of socket.

What is claimed isp l. Asa new article of :manufacturafa sash- .cord-fastenersocket for Windowsashes, yconsisting of a split sp ring tubularsocke't having its route-r -end .closed .and provided with a diametric slot, which terminates in a longttud'ip nal :slot or bifurcation in `the socket.

2. As afnewarticle of manufacture, a sashycorddastener socket for window-sashes, consisting `ofa lon gitu dinally-split tubularsocket l `having-anopen inn-er end and provided atits `outer end `with opposite inwardly-directed ears, which terminate short of eachother to form adiametric slot, `there bei-ng a longitudinal notch formed in the outer end of the socket at that end-of the last-mentioned slot which is opposite thelongitudinal split of the socket.

3. A sash -cord fastener, consisting of a socket having its outer end provided with a diams-tric ,slot terminating at one end in a longitudinal notch in one side of the socket, and cord-engaging fastening having a shank, provided at opposite longitudinal edges with staggered bendable ears, a reduced neck at its normally lower end, an enlarged head at the outer end of the neck and in substantially the plane of the shank, and spurs struck from the shank, flying :upon the innerside thereof, and inclined outwardly .and .downwardly toward the head, the latter being adapted to The .entered into the socket through fthe end slot thereof.

4. As a new article of manufacture, .fa-sashcord-fastener socket, formed from ,a single 'blank which is hentri-nto a lon gitu dina'llyesplit spring tubular socket, one end `edge of `the fblank :having projected ears which .are leent :laterally inw-ard in opposite di rectious across .one `end of the `socket :and :terminated short of eachother to form adiametric slot, @the adjacent end. .edge of `the socket zbeing .provided with .a longitudinal notch located rdiametrically :opposite the longitudinal split of `the socket and at the adjacent .end of the dia- 4metric .end slot.

In testimony .that We claim the foregoingas our own we have hereto affixed our signatures in the presence of -t-wo witnesses.

JAMES LC. BARR. VIRGIL EDSON BARR. 4

Witnesses E. Soumis, D. H. SOHLISCIH. 

